The Israeli prime minister’s alliance with U.S. Republicans defies the politics of most American Jews.
America and the World
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Jeb Bush’s Distinct and Special Manhood
View image | gettyimages.com The political news of the day came from Jeb Bush, who delivered a foreign policy address with a sound-bite-ready quote in which he declared that as terrific as his father and brother are, “I am my own man.” He didn’t actually explain any differences between what they did and what he’d […]
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A Talent for Storytelling
Rick Perlstein tells how Reagan imagined his way into the American psyche.
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Will E.U. Leaders Wreck Europe’s Economy to Teach Greece a Lesson?
The policy is madness. But Europe’s leaders refuse to relent.
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Silence of American Jewish Leaders on Boehner-Netanyahu Ploy is Unacceptable
The Israeli prime minister has worked assiduously to transform Israel into an American partisan issue since his first term—never mind the harm to the Jewish state.
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Scott Walker Meets the Spotlight
At the end of last week, I wrote that the media were suddenly fascinated with Scott Walker, despite the fact that the Republican electorate wasn’t yet aware of it. Well hold on to your hats, because in a new Des Moines Register poll, Walker has rocketed to the front of the pack! He now leads […]
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Exporting Financial Instability
Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement could set back the gains made by emerging and developing countries after the financial crisis.
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Under Pressure From the Right, Gowdy Renews Benghazi Shenanigans
Elijah Cummings, ranking member of the Benghazi Select Committee, says the Republicans are keeping information from them and limiting access to witnesses.
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A Break In the Greek Tragedy
By calling the question on austerity, the Greeks have done the rest of Europe a huge service.
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Let’s Stop Pretending On Israel
So John Boehner knew how he could get back at Barack Obama: by inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to come before Congress and unload on the administration over its negotiations with Iran, which both Republicans and Likudniks find insufficiently belligerent. In my Plum Line post today, I suggest that maybe this is a good thing, if it […]
